A new Pentagon map shows how China is beefing up what a top US general calls its 'dangerous position' in the South China Sea

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Structures on the artificial island built by China in Cuarteron Reef in the Spratly Islands, seen on October 25.

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Kremlin elites are fighting over how best to control their Ukraine war narrative, says the Russian foreign ministry's top spokesperson

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Maria Zakharova, Spokeswoman for Foreign Minister of Russian Federation attends his press briefing at UN Headquarters.
Maria Zakharova, the Russian foreign ministry's top spokeswoman, attends a press briefing at UN Headquarters.

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France is already sending one armored 'oddity' to Ukraine. Now it might send a slightly odder one.

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French soldiers with AMX-10P armored vehicles at a UNIFIL base in southern Lebanon in September 2006.

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After losing more than 30,000 soldiers, the brutal Wagner Group is now recruiting in Russian schools

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Ukrainian Army replacement troops go through combat training on February 24, 2023, in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine.

From pigeon-mounted cameras to dragonfly drones, here's how aerial surveillance has evolved to spy on people over the past 200 years

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A man is being instructed how to use an aerial camera on a plane during World War II.
A man is being instructed how to use an aerial camera on a plane during World War II.

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Jehovah's Witness mass shooter presented himself as a business guru charging clients $266,000 a day to get rich, says local report

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Police officers stand outside a building where a shooting the night before in Alsterdorf district on March 9, 2023 in Hamburg, Germany.
Police officers stand outside a building where a shooting the night before in Alsterdorf district on March 9, 2023 in Hamburg, Germany.

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Pope Francis warns that the war in Ukraine is powered by competing 'empires' and 'arms industry'

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Pope Francis holds a Holy Mass on May 16, 2021.

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A dramatic helmet-cam video shows Ukrainian troops storming a Russian trench and capturing 2 prisoners of war

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The 108th Separate Mountain Assault Battalion stormed a Russian trench and captured two soldiers.
The 108th Separate Mountain Assault Battalion stormed a Russian trench and captured two soldiers.

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Saudi Arabia making peace with Iran in a deal brokered by China is a 'middle finger to Biden'

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Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (L) and US President Joe Biden (R).

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Nord Stream mystery: the tanker Minerva Julie spent 7 days idling near the attack site

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In this Handout Photo provided by Swedish Coast Guard, the release of gas emanating from a leak on the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea on September 27, 2022 in At Sea
Gas bubbles up from a rupture in the Nord Stream 2 pipeline on September 27. Nearly six months later, the identity of the saboteurs remains unknown.

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